Kanikôsen (2009)

5.8	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Hiroyuki Tanaka

Starring (View all)

Ryuhei Matsuda
Shinjo

Hidetoshi Nishijima
Asakawa

Kengo Kora
Nemoto

Hirofumi Arai
Shioda

Tokio Emoto
Shimizu

Takayuki Kinoshita
Kume

Takehiro Kimoto
Yagi

Masaki Miura
Kobori

Written by

Hiroyuki Tanaka
(screenplay)

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Description: Aboard the Japanese crab ship 'Kanikosen' equipped with a cannery facility, workers are forced to labor under pitiful conditions at minimum wages. Some even die of cruel labor and malnutrition. And to top it off, the factory superintendent Asakawa (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is the most brutal sort who does not treat the workers as human beings. Shinjo (Ryuhei Matsuda), one of the workers, persuades the others that they should wish to become rich in their next life as there is no future for them in the present. So all of them try to commit suicides, which ends up in a comedy of errors. Shinjo then escapes the Kanikosen and is rescu ... (more)

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